The other groups that they're involved with, for example, are the Center for Constitutional Rights, the group that's trying to get detainees in Guantanamo Bay released into American courts with full civil-liberties protections, so that they will have lawyers protecting them with the same rights that Americans have. The Black Radical Congress is one of the organizations they work with. The Palestinian Solidarity Committee and others.

Perhaps the greatest service that the Thomas Merton Center rendered to Teresa Heinz Kerry was in 2004, when they actually protested against the Republican National Convention.

They tried to block delegates' buses from getting to the convention center. They interrupted several speeches on national television. They harassed the delegates and some of the speakers. They exposed themselves in public.

Not only did Teresa Heinz Kerry fund her own political convention but she also funded those who disrupted her husband's opponents' political convention.

Q: All of these leftist or liberal groups exist already, so is there anything that you can point to that would not exist if it were not for Teresa Heinz Kerry's own politically directed charity?

A: Two of them. One of them would be the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania. The Tides Center is a San Francisco-based funder of radical causes. For instance, the Tides Center helped provide the Internet to Cuba . They have ties to CAIR, the Center for American Islamic Relations, which is sort of a pro-terrorist, pseudo-civil rights organization that lobbies on behalf of Islamist concerns in the United States . She brought a wing of the Tides Center to Western Pennsylvania specifically to fund projects in the area, but they give 10 percent of their income to local radical organizations.

The second one, in this reporting period, is that she took $10 million to found the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment (based in Washington , D.C. ). Its purpose specifically is to attempt to lobby lawmakers on behalf of environmental causes by producing pseudo-scholarship promoting the green agenda.

Q: You say the Heinz Endowments have been responsible for a wide variety of radical or offensive "art." What's an example of that?

A: The most outrageous example of this would be the 2006 Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, which screened not one but two films that glorified same-sex statutory rape. One was "Loving Annabelle," which is a film about a Catholic school teacher who has sexual intercourse with one of her underage students. The other one is called "Whole New Thing," which is about a 13-year-old who was formerly homeschooled, raised by hippies, who tries to seduce his gay teacher in Nova Scotia . Both of them present the sex as something the student is actively pursuing and in their own terms justifying and glorifying what's going on. I think that's well beyond the pale.

Q: If someone says, "OK, so Teresa Heinz spent $10,000 or whatever on this film festival. She's basically wasting her money, but is it really hurting anything -- and who cares?" What's your response to that?

A: I think anytime that we glorify pedophilia that feeds into the victimization of children. Anyone who does that should be ashamed of themselves. They are participating in the glorification of statutory rape. That is one of the most offensive things any human being can do. The fact that her money helped finance this and justify it to a subsection of your readers in Pittsburgh is absolutely indefensible and execrable.

Q: Teresa Heinz and John Kerry are left-liberal Democrats. You wouldn't expect them to give money to the GOP or the Moral Majority. What are they doing that is worse than what any other ideologically based endowment is doing?

A: What they do that I think is worse than what anyone can do, to begin with, is being involved directly in the political process in a way that personally benefited both of them.

Secondly, justifying pedophilia; screening films that are explicitly pornographic; aiding domestic radicals who are violent; and promoting films and performances which accuse our soldiers of systematic torture and rape around the world. One of those, the Fear Up Project, which is called "Fear Up: Stories From Baghdad and Guantanamo ," was praised in a personal letter written by John Kerry. These are two individuals who not only personally gained from positive press coverage from some of the outlets that they fund, who not only have attempted to increase their own power by projecting themselves into the highest office in the land with tax-exempt money from a Republican family, but have also violated the most basic standards of decency that hold as Americans -- the protection of innocent, defenseless children.

Q: What was your intent in writing this book?

A: Well, I wrote a book called "57 Varieties of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry's Charitable Giving" in 2004 because I thought it was worth exploring what the future first lady might be doing in the White House. Remember, she had vowed that if John Kerry had been elected in 2004 she was going to continue running her philanthropy as well as sitting on the board of the Brookings Institution and other causes. We had had a robust exploration of Hillary Clinton in 1992 and we were well aware of where she stood. But Teresa Heinz Kerry remained a mystery to us. So I thought it was worth exploring the most significant work she has done in her life. Then in 2008, the story had built enough that I thought it was worth a follow up. This is work that no one else is doing, that the media should have been doing throughout the 2004 campaign. We should have known, throughout, that Teresa Heinz Kerry had spent her money promoting radical organizations in a way that certainly violates the spirit if not the letter of the law -- and in a way that may have personally benefited her husband's candidacy.

It is to the everlasting shame of the media, and testimony to its bias, that we know none of this except through the work of an obscure right-wing blogger.

Q: By the name of .?

A: By the name of Ben Johnson (laughs).